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Originally Posted by Griff
In case somebody doesn't understand the dynamic: One reason these folks are growing dope on public property is asset forfeiture laws. For some reason the Feds don't seize National Parks and sell them off when the "owners" fail to adequately police their property for illegal activities.  |
I doubt a Mexican drug lord planned for that possibility, they seem to not care much that their operations get discovered and destroyed frequently, they have so many. In the case of Yosemite and Kings Canyon, the main reason seems to be the isolation and inaccesability of the hillsides and canyons where they set up, only backpackers in wilderness areas will ever see them. There has been so much sophisticated equipment uncovered at these bases that it makes one wonder how they got it all in, they could not exactly take a pack train through there without being observed. The feds are now using some of the same technology they took to Colombia and Peru, helicopters with infrared scopes, satellite photos, they know they are in the right area when they draw fire from the ground
